Daley's thrilling third-placed finish in the men's 10m platform diving final had a five-minute peak of 7.7 million viewers on BBC1, 6.6 million on BBC3 and another 1.6 million viewers on BBC Olympics 1 at 9.50pm on Saturday, a total of 15.9 million.

This eclipsed BBC3's previous highest Olympics peak audience of 4.3 million for Team GB's men's football team's win over Uruguay on 1 August.

The Daley audience was also the biggest peak of any of the BBC's dedicated Olympics digital channels over the course of the games.

Farah's win, which completed a historic double after taking gold in the 10,000m, was watched by 12.6 million viewers on BBC1 at 7.55pm, a 57.9% share of the audience, with another 305,000 viewers on BBC Olympics 1.

As Usain Bolt won yet another gold, 10 million viewers were watching on BBC1 at 9pm, a 40.2% share, with another 467,000 on BBC Olympics 1.

BBC3, with a 6.9% share of the all-day audience, was the second most popular channel on Saturday, ahead of ITV1 (5.9%), Channel 4 (4%), BBC2 (3.7%) and Channel 5 (2.9%). BBC1 had the biggest all-day share on Saturday with 36.3%.

All ratings are Barb overnight figures, including live, +1 (except for BBC and some other channels including Sky1) and same day timeshifted (recorded) viewing, but excluding on demand, or other – unless otherwise stated. Figures for BBC1, ITV1, Channel 4 and Channel 5 generally include ratings for their HD simulcast services, unless otherwise stated

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